[1] He worked briefly for McMaster University before being hired as a junior editor at Doubleday Canada,[1] where his first job was editing a biography of Stephen Leacock.
He also spearheaded the creation and publication of Home Truths, a compilation of Gallant's Canadian-themed stories which was her only title ever to win the Governor General's Award for English-language fiction.
[4] Robertson Davies, Bruce Hutchison, Jack Hodgins, Alice Munro and Morley Callaghan were also among the writers who established relationships with Gibson in this era.
[2] Numerous authors, including Munro, Davies, Hodgins, Gallant, Hugh MacLennan, Donald Jack, Guy Vanderhaeghe and W.O.
Works published by Douglas Gibson Books have included short story collections by Alice Munro and Mavis Gallant, Terry Fallis' novels The Best Laid Plans and The High Road, Paul Wells' Right Side Up: The Fall of Paul Martin and the Rise of Stephen Harper's New Conservatism, Yves Beauchemin's A Very Bold Leap and The Years of Fire, James Bartleman's memoir Raisin Wine: A Boyhood in a Different Muskoka, and Max Nemni and Monique Nemni's series of biographies of Pierre Trudeau.